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Hey guys, thread seems to have got off topic. Lets try to talk more about this fantastic idea. I personally think this will be a lot of fun.

For the NPCs you are making, are you looking to do more "generic" characters ("Guard", "Drow Fighter") or are you aiming this more towards the player side? Like "Herrick of Eastwind" and providing a background (large or small )for them?

All characters will be created (stat blocks) for NPC and PC use, so GMs and players can use them if they wish.

Now, the characters will lean towards more generic due that I cannot tailor them specifically for every commercial or home-brew campaign out there. However, they will be properly named and will have some background and role-playing ideas on how to introduce them to your games. So, to answer your question, all characters will be named and have a small background to go with them.

Here's an old obsolete version of the CBL character fluff page layout to give you an idea how the characters will be presented - obsolete example. I should have 2 new page layout examples (fancy and printer-friendly versions) to show off before this Kickstarter launches. Also, the example character fluff was reviewed by a professional editor after this example was created so any grammar mistakes have been addressed and some sentences have been rewritten.

Wasn't this a kickstarter before, that was canceled?

Yes. Based on good advice from people here and other forums that I wish I knew before I pressed the launch button back in October, I decided to cancel it and use these last couple of months to streamline what I want my CBL project to be and have more of my ducks in a row to make sure my project is done correctly, even if my Kickstarter is funded or not. If my Kickstarter is successful, then I can keep my artist team for the long-haul and produce CBL content in a consistent monthly work flow instead of sporadically by releasing a month or two at a time and waiting for enough sales to produce the next month or so. The character artwork I want to use is expensive and a big majority of my Kickstarter funds would be used to fund it.

I was going to save this for my project's promo post next week, but it doesn't hurt it mention it now, Even though I canceled my Kickstarter back in October, I still have been working on it for the last 3 months. I have more character artwork completed with 6 more portraits currently in progress, I have hired a professional editor to review all CBL characters' fluff pages, I have a layout guy working with me on the project's PDF cover and other pages (which should be completed by the end of January), and I have my business paperwork prepared so I will be able to incorporate my business in January. So, I have been a little busy.

In one way I'm glad I canceled my Kickstarter back in October for it allowed me to do some things that I should have done before I launched it (based on the good advice I received), so when I relaunch it again in January backers will see more completed character artwork & content and I will be able to keep my promises with little stress to my artists as well as myself since more of my project will be completed beforehand. Running a successful Kickstarter is not as easy as Kickstarter makes it out to be. I found that out the hard way and I believe I learned from noob mistakes so I can now put a quality product out there next year and see if there is a market for it.

For the record; I don't want to silence the bigoted folks. I like for them to speak out loud and proud. Makes it easier for the rest of us to identify them and bring them out into the light.

We may criticize and show derision towards their mindset; but I don't think anyone has tried to silence them.

Free speech is one thing; delegitimizing someone for being unlike what you consider the norm is another. 10 years ago, we tended to look the other way. Some of us have chosen another path recently.

Do what you got to do. Fine by me. However, don't make yourself become as bad or worse than the people you are criticizing by labeling them anti-equality or anti-X and-or mention that you expect them to keep their opinions to themselves.

My original post was to a specific statement that was said, which I found hypocritical and not good if that person is supposedly for equal rights.

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My stance on gay marriage or what sexual behavior Paizo puts in its APs is irrelevant to the points I originally made.

Anyone that goes around in a public forum and mentions that they expect anyone with an opposing view that they consider offense, bad, bigoted, etc to keep them to themselves and labels that person as an anti-equality or anti-whatever is being a jerk and a intolerant person.

Yes, I did read the whole thread. All I see is a lot of intolerance, ignorance, and bigotry responses from people who should know better. I also see from a few responses that Paizo may be wearing their politics on their sleeve and it may be impacting some of their customer base when it comes to sales.

Btw, I'm a Voltaire free speech kind of guy and it irks me when people try to silence opposing views with attack responses in public forum threads like this one.

My personal opinion:

I would expect anyone with anti-equality views (by which I mean the "You're not my equal, and don't deserve the same rights and privileges as I do" type) to keep them to themselves. That's about the only requirement I would expect.

Anti-equality? What the hell does that mean? Does everything need to be equal between different people or just what YOU think needs to be equal?

Anyway, your opinion sounds very condescending imo. A stance like that comes across as - "Since you are not for equality for everyone you are a mean-spirited, bigoted, homophobic, racist jerk! Oh, and keep your mouth shut too since your opinion doesn't agree with mine!" Wow! So much for free speech and demonizing people who disagree with you in this thread by using the word ANTI-equality.

You telling people with opposing views to keep their opinions to themselves while telling them what your opinion is in a public forum is just....wow!

Unless you are going to go all out to get your channel DC as high as you can (Improved Channel, High Charisma, Sacred Conduit Trait? +1 channel DC), I would go with the Fire domain for the burning hands and fireball spells. (Fire resistance always comes in handy.) This will let you turn yourself into a minor blaster cleric with those two spells if you take the Magical Lineage trait (Fireball) (-1 metamagic cost) and plan in taking the Heighten metamagic->Preferred Spell (Fireball) & Intensified feats down the road. If you are going full channel blast on undead, then stick with the Sun domain.

Feats that you should consider regardless of what your domains are:
- Scribe scroll - Use to create utility spells for that special occasion or emergency.
- Reach metamagic - Ranged healing spells as well as debuffing spells like Bestow Curse.

If you go the fire blaster route, the feats you will need are:
- Heightened metamagic (required for Preferred Spell)
- Preferred Spell (Fireball) - Spontaneous fireballs!! Boom boom!
- Preferred Spell (Searing Light) - Spontaneous searing lights!! Nice undead repellant!

I would drop the Heavy armor proficiency unless you plan to be in the front ranks all the time beating on things with your scimitar.

Also, I heard that their are plenty of aberrations in this AP, so your undead channel whammy will not work on them.